Nemesis

This wall is the bane of my existence as of late.

The back wall of my classroom is covered with chalkboard, and since I don't use it, I cover it up with bulletin board paper and tape other things on it.  The bottom half of the green part (the paper is not wide enough to cover the whole board, so it takes two layers), for the last few months, falls off almost every day.  Attached to the green paper is our helper chart, daily news, calendar, tally mark chart, and weather chart, so when the green paper falls, these fall too.  I usually come into my classroom in the morning and the first thing I do is re-tape and re-stick. I am counting down the days not only until I have no more students, but also until I can rip that green paper down and crumple it into a giant ball.  Oh, the satisfaction.

I had to stop by my classroom on Saturday, and Jon came with me.  I walked in to the bottom half of the "wall" on the floor, and so began my ritual of stomping, grumbling, and taping.  Jon had the idea to use tacks to stick the top half to the wall above, so we did that, then re-did the entire bottom half of the wall.  I thought for sure this would last me at least a week, but I walked into my classroom this morning and saw this - worse than ever before, both the top and bottom on the floor.